The statement also said that the federations that govern individual sports should begin determining the eligibility of Russian athletes while the International Olympic Committee considers its options.
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The due statement came from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Sputniknews reports. The Olympic organization says it plans to retest all Russian athletes that participated in the 2014 Sochi games.
“No, there is no such topic on the agenda”. Should the court rule Thursday in their favor, it would seemingly rule out the chance of the International Olympic Committee imposing a blanket ban.
“We interpreted this as definite pressure on the International Olympic Committee with the aim of excluding the Russian team”, he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the doping allegations a unsafe return to. letting politics interfere with sport.. He was suspended after his name occurred in a report on the doping of Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Further appeals are also possible, meaning that the final word on the Russians may go down to the wire before August 5, when the Rio games open.
The IOC has faced growing calls to hit Russian Federation with an outright ban after a report commissioned by the World Anti Doping Agency found the country ran an elaborate cheating program at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and other major events.
The Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport will pass its verdict on a lawsuit filed by the Russian Olympic Committee in which it challenged a discriminatory principle, which the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had used in considering the athletes’ individual bids for participation in international competitions, such as a requirement to reside overseas.
WADA has called for Russian Federation to be banned and are believed to have backing from the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and other nations. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has already barred Russian track and field contenders from Rio after an inquiry into widespread state-sponsored doping in the sport.
There was also a reference to the idea of reversing the “presumption of innocence” in doping matters for Russian athletes.
McLaren’s report primarily focused on Russian athletes from a wide range of summer and winter Olympic sports that had benefited from the state’s policy to make positive doping results disappear, especially after a poor showing at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Therefore the IOC reiterates the call of the Olympic Summit on 21 June 2016 to fully review the anti-doping system by requesting WADA to convene an “Extraordinary World Conference on Doping” in 2017.
FIFA will ask WADA for details on individual cases of doping in Russian football referred to in the report by Canadian law professor Richard McClaren.
“The Report also indicates the involvement of the Russian National Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA); and, shows that some of the key people involved, in particular the deputy sports minister, were members of the Russian Olympic Committee”.
Two high-profile sports lawyers presented each side – California-based Howard Jacobs for the Russians, British attorney Jonathan Taylor for the IAAF. Rodchenkov is now living in the United States.
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The IOC ordered a disciplinary commission to look into what McLaren’s commission called a “state-dictated failsafe system” of drug cheating that included Russia’s secret service swapping dirty urine samples for clean ones through a hole in a wall in Sochi.
